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How many patients does it take to engage a hospital?
When you bring up the topic of patient engagement to hospitals, most of them think immediately of a committee a patient and family council or having patients and families participate in some way on some of the many committees that help make hospitals run smoothly. -
PSOs tout benefits of membership
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in March that there would be no mandate for hospitals to join patient safety organizations (PSOs) until January 2017, at the earliest, rather than January 2015, many probably breathed a sigh of relief. -
Are enough patients engaged in safety issues?
The argument goes that given long enough, someone we know, or we ourselves, will be in a hospital, so any one of us, plopped into a hospital committee, counts as a patient or family member, right? -
ECRI tackles patient safety issues
With data from 1,000 hospitals coming in regularly, top 10 lists are probably easy to create for ECRI Institute PSO, a Plymouth Meeting, PA-based PSO and research organization. The latest by the organization is a Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report, released in April. -
Bioterrorism Watch
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'Safe’ needles still can lead to needlesticks
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Sharp advice: Lock out vendors, let in leaders
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Low flu vaccine rates leave hospitals at risk
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Key Questions to Ask Suppliers of Ergo Devices
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OSHA to begin enforcing without ergo standard